Gradle build progress

[Ali Ebrahimi]

Hi,
I just provide patch for getting Win Sdk dir from system variable:

diff -r 28fd91194a80 win.gradle
--- a/win.gradle    Fri Mar 29 17:06:43 2013 -0700
+++ b/win.gradle    Sat Mar 30 15:54:08 2013 +0430
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
     windows_tools_stream = new FileInputStream(windows_tools);
     windows_tools_properties.load(windows_tools_stream);
     defineProperty("WINDOWS_VS_VSINSTALLDIR", windows_tools_properties,
"absolute garbage");
-    defineProperty("WINDOWS_SDK_DIR", windows_tools_properties,
"C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v7.0A")
+    defineProperty("WINDOWS_SDK_DIR", windows_tools_properties,
System.getenv().get("WindowsSdkDir"))
     defineProperty("WINDOWS_VS_VCINSTALLDIR", windows_tools_properties,
"$WINDOWS_VS_VSINSTALLDIR/VC")
     defineProperty("WINDOWS_VS_DEVENVDIR", windows_tools_properties,
"$WINDOWS_VS_VSINSTALLDIR/Common7/IDE")
     defineProperty("WINDOWS_VS_DEVENVCMD", windows_tools_properties,
"$WINDOWS_VS_DEVENVDIR/VCExpress.exe")


Ali Ebrahimi



On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Richard Bair <richard.bair at oracle.com>wrote:

> I think the gradle scripts are now far enough along that you ought to be
> able to successfully build using them on Mac, Linux, or Windows. At least,
> I've managed to build on all three platforms but no doubt there are bugs on
> various platforms due to different configurations.
>
> To try out the gradle scripts, get the latest graphics repo (
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/openjfx/8/graphics,
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/openjfx/8/graphics/rt).
>
> cd rt
> gradle -b generator.gradle
> cd ../javafx
> gradle sdk
>
> You need to have gradle 1.4 installed on your system (I can't use gradlew
> for now because including a 3rd party library in our source repository
> requires legal review blah blah). I haven't tried it with other versions of
> Gradle.
>
> It should successfully build all Java & native code, and successfully
> download antlr, junit, and swt dependencies. It requires that
> artifacts/sdk/rt/lib/ext/jfxrt.jar is present in your root graphics dir
> just the same as the normal build, OR you can specify
> -PBINARY_STUB=/path/to/latest/binary/stub/jfxrt.jar
>
> Please give it a try and let me know if it works for you or if it fails.
>
> I've also run apps based on the resulting libraries. Note that the JDK 8
> builds have jfxrt.jar and associated native libraries on the ext class
> path, which means when you run an app you will likely run into a mismatch
> of native libraries or java source files. What I did was to remove
> jfxrt.jar and the prism, prism-sw, decora-sse, and glass dylibs  *out* of
> my Java 8 JDK and supplied my gradle-built jfxrt.jar first on the class
> path followed by the binary stub (old jfxrt.jar) file.
>
> Its a pain in the neck, I know. You can also mess with the ext class path
> / boot class path settings, but that's a pain too. The joys of JDK
> development :-/. Open to better suggestions on how to run locally built
> jfxrt.jar and native libraries against a stock Java 8 without all the muss
> & fuss.
>
> My next tasks:
>         - confirm javadoc generation works
>         - fix any failing tests or configuration that causes tests to fail
>                 - specifically I'm working to get most tests to run
> reliably in a single VM as they then execute 10x-100x faster
>         - jardiff the jfxrt.jar normally built with the one built by
> gradle to look for bugs in the build script
>         - fix any build issues reported on this thread
>         - IDE integration
>
> Then I will work with Mong to get the release engineering requirements in
> place and get a build setup on hudson and make sure all that is working
> fine.
>
> Richard